Lennard Pearce – Grandad

Lennard Pearce played Grandad. After 28 years we wanted to remember just how great Grandad was in Only Fools.

This scene has also recently been discovered where several years before his appearance in Only Fools Lennard appeared in Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare!

(9 February 1915 – 15 December 1984). Just as Only Fools and Horses entered into the hearts of the British public and became the sitcom everyone talked about, Lennard Pearce died. On 12 December 1984, Lennard Pearce suffered a heart attack. Two days later,John Sullivan visited him, and assured Pearce that his place in the programme would be open for him when he recovered. However, Pearce suffered a second heart attack, and died instantly, on the night of 15 December 1984. Sullivan was phoned the following morning to be told the news, and he broke it to co-starsDavid Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, who were both devastated.

The OFAH episode “Hole in One” was meant to be the first episode of series four, but due to Lennard Pearce’s death, it was pushed back to later slot in the series. Filming for the episode had not yet been completed and eventually was deleted.